Isaias

Septuaginta

Septuaginta. The Book of Isaiah According to the Septuagint (Codex Alexandrinus). Ottley, Richard, Rusden, editor. Cambridge: C.J. Clay and Sons, 1904.

6 Ι the Lord God have called thee in righteousness, and will hold fast thine hand, and will strengthen thee, and have given I thee for a covenant of a race, for a light of nations.

7 To open blind ’s eyes, to lead out from bonds them that are bound, and men that sit in darkness out of a prison house.

8 Ι am the Lord God: this is my name; my glory will I not give to another, nor my excellences to the graven images.

9 The things from of old, behold, they are come; and new things do I proclaim, and before they sprang up they were made plain to you.

[*](27. Perhaps, ‘A beginning (or, at the beginning) will I give to ’ ‘will comfort Jer. for the ’ εἰς ὁδὸν, ℵQ (omit B*).)[*](1. See Matt. xii. 18.)[*](5. ‘giveth,’ ℵBQ.)[*](6 ‘for a light of ’ omit B*.)[*](9. ‘they are come, and new things which I ’ ℵBQ. ‘before the proclaiming (of ’ ℵB.)
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10 Sing unto the Lord a new song; it is his dominion; glorify his name at the end of the earth, ye that go down unto the sea and sail upon it: the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.

11 Be glad, O wilderness and the villages thereof; ye lodges, and the inhabitants of Kedar. They that dwell in a rock shall be glad, upon the tops of the mountains.

12 They shall give glory to God, they shall proclaim his excellence in the isles.

13 The Lord, the God of powers, shall come forth, and shall break war in pieces: he shall stir up jealousy, and shall shout against his enemies with might.

14 I have been silent: shall I be silent even for ever, and hold my peace? I endured, as she that travaileth; I will amaze, and I will dry up together.

15 And I will turn rivers into islands, and will dry up pools.

16 And I will lead blind men by a way that they had not learnt, and will make them to tread paths which they knew not; I will make their darkness into light, and the crooked things into (a) straight (path); these (are) the things which I will do, and will not forsake them.

17 But they turned away backward. Be utterly ashamed, ye that trust in the graven images; that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.

18 Hear, ye deaf; and look up, ye blind, and see.

19 And who is blind, but my servants? and deaf, but they that are lords over them? and the slaves of God are blinded.

20 Full oft have ye seen, and taken not heed; your ears are opened, and ye heard not.

[*](10. ‘from the end,’)[*](11. ‘from the top,’)[*](11 fin. Add, ‘shall they shout aloud,’)[*](15. ‘I will make desolate mountains and hills, and all their grass will I dry up, and I will turn rivers, ’ B. (Th. Symm.))[*](16. ‘these things will I do,’)
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21 The Lord God took counsel, that he might be justified, and might magnify praise.

22 And I saw, and the people was plundered and spoiled; for the snare is in treasuries everywhere, and in houses together; where they hid themselves, they became a prey; and there was none that set free a prey, and there was none that said, Restore.

23 Who is there among you that will give ear to this? he shall hearken, for the time to come.

24 Who gave Jacob for a prey, and Israel to them that plunder him? Is it not God, before whom they sinned, and they would not walk in his ways, nor hear his law?

25 And he brought upon them the fury of his wrath, and war overpowered them, and they that set them on fire round about, and they understood not, each of them, neither laid it to heart.